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A
SERMON PREACHED
before the K
1 N G
s
Nl
A I£
s
T 1 E,
at
White-HaU>
on
Tuefday,
rhe XXV. of
'December,
A. D.
MD
c x.
being
CHRISTMAS
day.
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LVKE Chap.II. Ver.X,XI.
The Angel!faid unto t!Jem, IJ3e not •ifraid, for behold, I bringyougood tydings, ofgreat
joy, 11>hicl) jhall be to all p'ople..
.
.
•
.
That
there
u
borne,
unto
you, tlm,day a
SA
V
1
Q
u
R,
ll>lnc1JI5
C
H
R
1
s
T,
the
L'o
R 0
j
11
the Citie of 'Dal!id.
'
33
../
is a
Word
in this Text, and it isH
odie,
by vertue whereof,
tht.f
Day
may feemeto challengeafpeciall
properti'\inthisTe.~t,
and.
thu Text
in
this Day.
CH
R
r s
T
was borne,
is trueany day: bur,
thu day
CH
a
I
s
T
w.u
borne,
ne'ler, but
to day onely.
For, ofno
day in theyearecan it befaid,
Hodte natzu,
bur
ofthu.
By which
word, the Ho
L Y
G
ll
o
s
T
may feeme to have marked it out;
and made it the peculiar Text of
the day.
Then, it wtll not beamiffe,
Donee cognominattlr hodi'i:,
(as the
Heb.J· •;:
u!poffle
fptaketh)
whtle it iscalled, today,
to heareit. Tomor-
row,
the word
Hodt'i:
will be loll : Thisday,and not any dayelfe, it is in feafon. Let us thetl
heare
itthis day,
which we can heare no day bdides.
I
T
is then the firll report,the very firfl: newes, that came (as
tht5 day)
ofthat, which m:t–
keththis day,
fo high
a
Feafl:;
the birth ofchrift.
It came by an
Angel!
then: No
Man
was meet to berhemeffenger ofir. And looke
r
how it camethen, fo idhould come frill; and none but an Angel/bring it : as, more fit for
'Vixit
the tongues of
fingels
than of
men.
yet lioce, G
0 D
hath allowed finfull men, to be the
Ange/1!1,
Reporters of it at the fecond hand; and the newes never the wor(e; for that Good newes
·
is good newcs and welcome, by any, though the perfon bee bur
evenafoule Leperrhat
•
Reg.1.9
brings it. Yet, rhat the meanneffe ofrhe meffenger otfend us nor, ever we arero remember
this; Berhc party who he will, that bringsit,thencwcs of
CH "
I
s
T
s
Birth,is
a
meffage
for an
Angel/.
.
This had beene ncwes for roe bell Prince in the Earrh. That thefe
IUu
here,thefe parries
:t
were
Shepheards,
that thi,s Meffage came to them, needs not feeme firange: It found none
Dixit
elfe
latthe nme)tocometo: TheAngell was glad ro find any tC> rell it to; evenrotel!tt the
i!lu.
fir!thecuuld meet withal!: None were then awake, none in cafe to receive it, but a fort of
poore
Shepheards ;
and to them herold it•
. Y
~t,
'·
fell
nor out amiffe, that
shepheards
they were; the newes fitted them
we!~.
It
well •areed, tordl
shepheards
ofthe yeaning ofa firange Lambe: fuch aLambe,as !hould
take
arvay~he
finms ofthC>vorld:
fuch a
Lambe,
as they might
.fmdto the R•ler ofthe World
r;~·.~:·:.
for aprife.tt, c.Mme Agm'm Dommatori terr.e: E(ay's Lambe.
Or
(tf
ye
w11l) ro
rell
shep-
·
heards,